Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

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• You know you've made your mark when you're on the cover of a videogame.

  

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• I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.

  

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• Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.

  

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• For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.

  

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• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

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• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

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• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

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• The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.

  

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• Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.

  

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• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

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• I don't think Michael had to retire for us to get the spotlight, because when you win, it commands attention.

  

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• I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

  

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• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

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• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

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• We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.

  

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• To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.

  

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• I didn't want to work at Pizza Hut and I didn't want to join the Army. So I just decided to go out and be awesome.

  

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• It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

  

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• Raising a child is an on-the-job kind of thing. There aren't a whole lot of manuals for that.

  

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• I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
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